Supreme Court says Boston violated rights of Christian group over flag

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : At issue was whether the flagpole became a public forum meriting free speech protections under the First Amendment to bar discrimination based on viewpoint, as the plaintiffs claimed, or whether it represented merely a conduit for government speech not warranting such protection, as Boston claimed.
53% : In turning down Camp Constitution, Boston had said that raising the cross flag could appear to violate another part of the First Amendment that bars governmental endorsement of a particular religion.
52% : In his decision, Justice Breyer wrote: 'When the government encourages diverse expression -- say, by creating a forum for debate -- the First Amendment prevents it from discriminating against speakers based on their viewpoint.'
50% : 'When the government encourages diverse expression -- say, by creating a forum for debate -- the First Amendment prevents it from discriminating against speakers based on their viewpoint,' Justice Stephen Breyer, who is on on the liberal wing of the court, wrote in the decision.

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